Around page 20 I took a break and washed the dishes; around page 40 I’ll take another break and put stuff where it belongs. No rest for the wicked.
October 22, 2003
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You can tell when a project is REALLY bad when…
…you reward yourself at milestones by doing housework.
(hang in there)
Comment by shunra — October 22, 2003 @ 6:07 AM |
Re: You can tell when a project is REALLY bad when…
Finished, by $DEITY!
It wasn’t that bad. I’ve had to read hundreds and hundreds of pages of technical specifications that were mind numbingly dull. By contrast, this document is popular fiction.
Comment by mulix — October 22, 2003 @ 6:19 AM |
Hurrah!
…and the house is so clean, too… ::wink::
(I did that reward by houswork thing while typing backwards, which was a project that took six weeks and much of my sanity last March.)
Comment by shunra — October 22, 2003 @ 6:26 AM
Re: Hurrah!
Why would one wish to type backwards?
Comment by ladypine — October 23, 2003 @ 9:05 AM
Large piles of pretty green dollars
It was an awful project. I almost lost my sanity.
It wasn’t actually typing: the software provided for the project involved doulbeclicking on Hebrew letters presented, ouija board fashion, beneath the text I was translating. By the end of the project, I was starting to dissociate and bits of me were talking to other bits. Without my permission, while other bits typed.
I was very glad to see the end of that project.
Comment by shunra — October 23, 2003 @ 12:47 PM
Re: Large piles of pretty green dollars
I sure hope the money was worth it, it sounds like a recipe for madness. Also, couldn’t it be automated somehow?
Comment by mulix — October 24, 2003 @ 5:29 PM
I wish it could have been automated…
…but since it could not, I just did my part of the job, to the loud sounds of music.
It was really one of the least creative parts of my career, this project was. Restful, in a way. 🙂
Comment by shunra — October 24, 2003 @ 5:58 PM
Seems that being on a conference and leaving you all alone cleans the house. Magic!
Comment by ladypine — October 23, 2003 @ 9:06 AM |
you forgot
the third ingredient – having nothing interesting to hack on. Had I been working on something interesting, you could have left the house and come back and seen me sitting in the same position in front of emacs that I was when you left. Oh, for something interesting to hack!
Comment by mulix — October 24, 2003 @ 5:31 PM |